Re: host aliases

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:27:08 +0100
Thomas Jollans <thomas@jollans.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 03:44, Celejar wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:58:57 +0100
> >
> > Thomas Jollans <thomas@jollans.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday 19 March 2007 14:48, Celejar wrote:
> > > > I don't, in general, know the IP address. I have a system on my LAN,
> > >
> > >                                                             ^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > if it's on your LAN, why can't you just give a static internal IP address
> > > ? If a DHCP server supplies certain dynamic information (name servers and
> > > such), maybe it can be configured to map a MAC to an IP or something ?
> >
> > I do indeed have my router / dhcp server configured to assign a
> > specific IP address to the system, (recognized by its MAC address), as
> > you suggest. The problem is that I also access the same system over the
> > internet via dynamic DNS, and the public IP address (actually, that of
> > the router / gateway - I'm doing port forwarding) is not generally
> > known.
> 
> So why can't you access it directly ?

Not sure what you mean. How can I access it directly from the internet
without knowing the IP address or using the long dynamic DNS name?

Celejar